1:00 PM,
Apr. 19, 2014

Students get off a bus in front of the Obama School on Bangs Avenue in Asbury Park. / Bob Bielk/Staff Photographer

Written by

Hollis Towns
@tweeter23

Last week, I told you about our efforts to work with parents, school officials and educators to help improve the graduation rate and performance of students attending Asbury Park Public Schools. I told you that despite taxpayers spending $30,000-plus a year to educate each child, just 51 percent of Asbury Park public high school students graduate in four years. Our story on the matter, "The high cost of failure," in the March 26 issue of the Asbury Park Press elicited strong reactions from readers.